"Perhaps... perhaps it was because the Nameless Island Research Institute was granted a high level of autonomy back then..." Yang Qi stammered, "Or maybe it was because the incident happened suddenly, and what Dubhe Tower wants to investigate is the truth of the incident back then..."

To be honest, these flimsy excuses couldn't even convince Yang Qi himself.

"Why don't you just ask Mr. Pei directly?" Candle Dragon spoke up.

"I did, but he didn't say anything." Sun Hang glanced at the time displayed on his phone, "He only mentioned that the report I submitted this time is very helpful in tracing the origins of the Nameless Island incident."

"Mr. Pei's meaning is clear then; we don't need to concern ourselves with this matter any longer. The aftermath will be handled by others," Candle Dragon said.

"Aren't you curious?" Sun Hang asked.

"Curiosity won't help. There are too many things in this world that can arouse my curiosity, but not every one of them can be answered," Candle Dragon shrugged with a smile, "Instead of wasting time on this, I'd rather bask in the sun or enjoy a drink."

"You're right."

Sun Hang nodded, though he couldn't help but mutter to himself, "If this matter had nothing to do with me, I certainly wouldn't bother. But the problem is, Nameless Island seems to have a very close connection with my origins..."

This time, the Hunters who landed on the island almost completely perished. Such a high mortality rate is extremely rare in past ascension trials... Not only Dubhe Tower, but the Xiazhou Federation has also dispatched a special forces team and an engineering corps to Nameless Island to participate in the excavation work of the ruins.

The Federation Government's level of attention to Nameless Island is quite high—apart from the two teams landing on the island, they even specially deployed a fleet stationed in the surrounding sea area of Nameless Island, which includes a large number of Mysterious Creature Hunters.

With this scale of mobilization, if Sun Hang hadn't repeatedly confirmed that no department had received any intelligence related to Yamata Orochi, he would have thought these troops were assembled to hunt Yamata Orochi.

After playing a mobile game for a while, Sun Hang suddenly looked up at Candle Dragon, who was flipping through a travel magazine of unknown origin, and asked, "Candle Dragon, have you heard of Yamata Orochi?"

"B-25, Yamata Orochi... of course, I've heard of it. As a mysterious creature with similar attributes and source of infection to mine, I've specifically studied this creature," Candle Dragon closed the magazine, "Unfortunately, I couldn't personally participate in the last campaign against Yamata Orochi because I had other missions... Why are you suddenly interested in this creature?"

"It's nothing, I was just playing Snake, thinking about those snake-like mysterious creatures," Sun Hang waved his phone, "What's the story behind this Yamata Orochi? Can you tell me about it?"

"Yamata Orochi... This creature was once a monster in Fusang mythology, with a huge body with eight heads and eight tails, and whenever it appeared in the human world, it would inevitably cause great disaster... According to the descriptions in Fusang mythology, Yamata Orochi was intoxicated with strong liquor by Sukunahiko and then slain, and a sword called 'Heavenly Cloud' was extracted from the serpent's tail," Candle Dragon said, "The authenticity of the mythical story is yet to be proven, but the Yamata Orochi described in it almost exactly matches the form of the mysterious creature Yamata Orochi that appears now. Therefore, one point we can be sure of is that Yamata Orochi did appear in ancient Fusang and left numerous eyewitness accounts. As for whether the current Yamata Orochi is the same serpent from back then or its descendant, nobody knows."

"Then who is this Sukunahiko?" Sun Hang asked.

"Another name he's more famously known by is Susano, a very famous deity in Fusang mythology, and his father is the even more famous Izanaqi... Of course, from our current perspective, these so-called deities were most likely ancient infectees, and after artistic processing through mythological tales, these infectees with superhuman abilities were deified into all sorts of gods. When you delve into mythological stories, you will find that, whether it's Norse mythology, Greek mythology, or Fusang mythology, the deities described in these myths are often capricious, and some even have very peculiar, even perverse habits..."

"All I know is that within these mythological stories, incest seems to be as common as everyday meals," Sun Hang said, "Even German bones can only be considered entry-level."

"Experts in mysterious creature studies believe that the peculiarities of these ancient deities were likely influenced by the memes of mysterious creatures... As for incest, many ancient civilizations believed that marrying close relatives could ensure the purity of the bloodline... And for those 'deities,' having infectees with special abilities marry each other had the potential to give birth to even more powerful infectees, and in that era of extremely low civilization, infectees were almost humanity's only means of countering mysterious creatures," Candle Dragon said.

"Even in modern times, there are quite a few scholars conducting research in this area," Yang Qi glanced at Sun Hang, "Next time a beautiful female hunter tries to chat you up, it's likely she's not interested in you but has been tasked with 'borrowing' your genes, so be careful not to be fooled."

"Whether I'm fooled depends on how beautiful that female hunter is."

"You... can't you be a little more serious?"

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